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The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Genre
Sci-Fi
Rating
PG-13
Released
23 May, 1997
The Lost World: Jurassic Park

The Lost World: Jurassic Park is a 1997 American science fiction action film. It is the second installment in the Jurassic Park franchise and the second film in the Jurassic Park trilogy. A sequel to 1993's Jurassic Park and loosely based on Michael Crichton's 1995 novel The Lost World, the film was directed by Steven Spielberg and written by David Koepp. The film stars Jeff Goldblum, returning as the eccentric chaos theorist and mathematician Ian Malcolm, as well as Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Arliss Howard, Vince Vaughn, and Vanessa Lee Chester. Four years after the original film, John Hammond sends a team, led by Malcolm, to Isla Sorna, the second island Hammond's company InGen used to make the dinosaurs, to study the animals while coming into conflict with a team led by InGen to bring some of the dinosaurs back to the United States. After the original novel's release and the first film's success, fans pressured Crichton for a sequel.

Director Steven Spielberg
Produced by Gerald R. Molen, Colin Wilson
Screenplay by David Koepp
Starring Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Arliss Howard
Music John Williams
Cinematography Janusz Kamiński
Edited by Michael Kahn
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Released May 19, 1997 (Los Angeles premiere), May 23, 1997 (United States)
Running time 129 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $73 million
Box office $618.6 million
Netflix ID 60003016

About The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Steven Spielberg directed sequel to 1993's Jurassic Park that focuses on a research team that travels to Jurassic Park Site B to disastrous results.

Achievement of The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Jeff Goldblum is the only main cast member from the first film to have a prominent role in the feature, with Richard Attenborough only making a brief appearance. 

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